What are some dishes you make that impress normies?

We know the bar is on the floor for them but when I make a quiche they act like I mastered the art of French cooking.

No one cares to eat my food cause they think I'm gross

Pie crusts are hard.

>impress normies
Anything that takes more than 10 minutes

>>21425998
Pie crusts aren't hard. Refrigerate your dry ingredients in a bowl before you get started. Then push the fat into the flour with your fingers. Stir in the liquid. Grab some dough, form it into a disc, sprinkle some flour on it, repeat to form a stack. Push this together to form a puck, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate.

This is what I use:


Single Crust
1 1/4 cup flour
1 tb sugar
1/2 ts table salt
1 tb shortening
1 stick butter
1 tb white vinegar
3 tb water
1 tb for layering and wrapping
make 3-4 discs and sprinkle flour in between

https://www.seriouseats.com/old-fashioned-flaky-pie-dough-recipe

>>21425989 (OP)
Any kind of quality baked good will impress normies. When most people hear I can make a basic pie dough they act like I'm a nuclear physicist.
It really is sad desu, when I first decided to learn to cook about 10 years ago I was expecting it to be truly difficult. It's really not, especially not with a functionally infinite amount of cooking tutorials via YouTube.
I made Beef Wellington for a dinner party once and people asked if I had professional training. The bar is on the floor /ck/

>>21425989 (OP)
Normies can actually cook. How socially inept are you.

98% of the time modifying a cake or brownie mix is enough, but for Thanksgiving I bust out my two-layer vanilla pumpkin cheesecake with the hand-made rum-infused whipped cream and the wife's family think I'm a god.

>>21426097
i havent held a conversation for longer than 10 seconds in over 20 years

>>21426048
I honestly don’t know the target I’m aiming at with taste and texture. I don’t eat out a lot. I’ve gotten decent enough flaky crust but being a miserable perfectionist, the edges always look shitty. I used Sally baking addiction as a guide

>>21425989 (OP)
When I was a high school student my home economics teacher Mrs Stubblety-Cook made quiche in front of us while she was pregnant
The whole class kept clowning on it because it looked and smelled like vomit and her hormones kicked in and she snapped at us all before leaving to have a cry for five minutes
Nobody ended up eating it and she took it home afterward
Then a few months back I saw some world-record swimmer named Zak Stubblety-Cook that was 26 years old and I was like "Holy shit, her son went on to become a world class athlete, good for her"

>>21426236
Imagine being a man with a hyphenated last name.

>>21425989 (OP)
Simple and quick meals I make for weekday dinner with random ingredients in my fridge/pantry. It's always so good and quickly made everyone is impressed.

>>21425989 (OP)
Thai red curry
roast chicken/turkey
miso nabe

Bisques, any homemade breads (pre-Covid), braided or enriched beads, anything deep fried, homemade cake with homemade buttercream or cream cheese frosting (which is a buttercream lmao), grilled chicken once (this girl practically creamed herself over it "I waited all summer for good barbecue and I finally get some in fucking September"), my wife's literally anything but particularly her samosas, homemade ice creams, sorbets and "Italian"/water ice, particularly if they're uncommon flavours like apple, red bell pepper or lychee
At the neighbourhood block party two years ago, one new neighbour was shocked–shocked!–that our portable ice maker made so much ice in just an hour. He was so impressed that he ordered the same one for himself off Amazon.